Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11
DAKOTA NEWS.

palace.
The Telltr and the Free Press at Mil
nor have consolidated.
The Y. NJ. c. A., Of Aberdeen, has
purchased new piano.
The Tribune says Bismarck is rapidly
becoming health resort.
In one month 16l cars of wheat wore
shipped from Darlington.
The Aberdeen FIGURING Mill company
is building q new warehouse.
Bishop Foss preached OF Fargo the
other Sunday to an audience Of 1900.
The new brick hotel built by the syn
dictate Mt DeSmet is ready for occupancy.
Dakota has more postofices than Mas
sachusetts, or about dozen other states.
e.-The South Dakota Educational ASSOC
citation will meet at Huron December 81.
Hon. John A. Owen, of DeSmet, is
speaking in central Dakota for prohibition.
One hundred and twenty land Office
patents have arrived at the Deadwood land
office.
The Vermillion Republican is pub
fishing Oh interesting sketch of Clay
county.
The First National bank of Fargo is
putting in a new Corliss safe; weight
eleven tons.
In two years the Dakota Mutual In
surance company has written $500, 900
of insurance.
1t is reported that Norwegian news
paper, in the interest Of prohibition, will
be started at Fargo.
"A house of prostitution at Lisbon,
known as the "Blacll Diamond" was
burned few nights ago.
The Manitoba railroad passes through
the gro ands where the state fair has been
held several times at Huron.
The Methodist conference in session
at Fargo decided 10 locate college some
where in the Red River valley.
The city of Deadwood has refused
right-of- way through the city to the Dead
wood and Black Hills railroad.
Some of the business men of Pierre
are organizing against the prohibiionists
and hope to defeat the measure.
-Mandan will vote November s, on the
question of issuing bonds to pay off the
floating Indebtedness of the city.
A severe snow and wind storm set in
ut Fort Meade, in the Black Hills, the
other night. Eight inches of snow fell.
-Deadwood capitalists contemplate
building narrow-gauge railroad to con-
meet the city with outlying mining camps.
Bishop Fowler, of California, who pre-
sided at the Aberdeen conference, is said
to be one of the finest pulpit orators in the
Methodist church.
Gov. Church has appointed DR.. F. A.
Spofford president of the Dakota board of
health in place of DR.. Moody, of Huron,
who has resigned.
"A freight train loaded with cattle ran
into an open switch at Petersburg, fifty
miles west of G.and Forks, and Enginee,
John Streeter was killed.
james Hyde, of Clay county, raised
$1,000 worth of onions and about the same
of potatoes. He says they beat wheat in
paying for dry goods and groceries.
"A squaw was murdered at the Sante.
agency by two other squaws. They hai
all been living with q half breed, and jeal
ousy is supposed to have been the cause O.
the murder.
There is suspicion that the mar
Parks, who was cremated by the burning
OF his house near Westport, was robbed
nd tha <~
hide the crime.
Chester Kingsley, of Minneapolis, pur-
chased the stock ranch of H. f. Conger, a
Steele, for $4,000. 1t is one of the larg.
est ranches in North Dakota, containins
1000 acres Of land. More stock will be
added.
A Finlander named William Gabriel
Son, farming east of Frederick, fell from
his load Of grain and under the WACO,
wheels, which passed over his body
crushing him to death. He leaves
family.
The house, contents and two small
children of Eugene Kelly, ten miles nortl
of Iroquois, burned the other forenoon
cause. burning nay. lue children We're
left alone temporarily, and presumably Sc
the hay on fire.
"A party of drunken roughs at Ordw q,
painted the town. They even went SO far
as to break into houses and brighten the
inmates. A wa rant has been issued TO
their arrest, but at last accounts they hs,
not been found.
Samuel A. Springer, member of G.
A: r. post No. 27O, of Clearfeld, Iowa.
dropped dead while at work in barn or
the farm of Thomas Ryan, seven miles
south of Glendale. His ailment is thought
to have been heart disease.
There are only twelve of the thirty
eight states of the union that have a.
many miles of railroad as Dakota has. 1
has more miles of railroad than California
New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island
and Connecticut combined.
Three companies of cavalry and twt
of infantry left Fort Mead recently unde!
command of Col. Bacon, and marched to-
ward the Crow reservation, where the In